Come through the front door

Ruidoso News (New Mexico)
December 10, 2009
By Jack Hemby

During the run for president in this country, both parties avoided talking about illegal immigration and protecting our borders.

Our lawmakers have done a lot of flip-flopping on border issues, afraid of losing the Hispanic vote.

President Obama needs to stop "dancing around the tulips" and tell the American people his plan to stop illegal immigration, if he plans on stopping it at all.

For years both the Bush and Obama administrations have given the American people the run-around about our borders.

If we don't start protecting our borders, we may someday have a tragedy bigger than 9/11.

If coyotes can smuggle illegals and drugs across our borders, they can smuggle terrorists and chemical weapons, also.

Our borders are not the same as we had 40 or 50 years ago. Our borders are no longer about hard-working Mexicans coming across to pick cotton, tomatoes and chile peppers. Our borders are a dangerous situation and our lawmakers need to treat it as one.

A lot of people in this country do not want to talk about illegal immigration from fear of being called racists.

Don't let the advocates for illegal immigration use the tactic as a weapon to fulfill their agenda to overrun this country.

If you want to own a piece of this country, come through the front door like millions of others have for years.

Jack Hemby
Ruidoso Downs

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